As the other Italian constituencies, it has only a procedural
goal to choose the elected MEPs inside party lists, the
distribution of seats between different parties being calculated at
national level (called Collegio Unico Nazionale, National
Single Constituency).

Usually, elected MEPs of this constituency comes from Sicily
only, leaving Sardinia without representatives, as it happened from
2004 to 2009. This fact is the effect of the different population
of the two islands. The confrontation with Malta, which has 5 European representatives even
if it has less than a forth of the inhabitants of Sardinia, was
used as argument by observers and politicians disputing the
democratic characteristics of European elections.